The Arrow's Path

With all the flap over the Confederate flag and ludicrous knee jerk reactions , I can't get the chorus of the old Randy Travis song out of my head: "Digging up bones, I'm digging up bones...  exhuming things that's better left alone... I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone.  I'm just sitting alone here digging up bones." There's wisdom in that.

Video by Yours Truly.

Well, this is just cool.

I remember now why I left .

A well thought out editorial  on how society now manufactures canned artists.

This article here seems to capture what people are thinking about the Pacman-Mayweather fight. I don't think it was anyone's fault. I've boxed or coached boxing for neigh on 10+ years. I think what people did not understand who know next to nothing about boxing is that this match was never going to be a Rocky film WWF style brawl, despite whatever people thought it was going to be. That's not real boxing. That's thugs duking it out in the Thunderdome: "two men enter, one man leave." Rocky was the worst thing that ever happened to boxing because it ingrained in novice fans' mind that boxing is about going to for the killer head shot to knock the dude out. Very rarely do head shots ever make someone go to the mat. Head shots stun and you go after the gut. It's when you get punched square in the gut that you go down to the mat. These were two extremely good professionals whose strengths were both in the defensive, not offensive, mode of boxing. The...

Very interesting little editorial here that I have harped on before.

It's been a long time since I've heard one .

For those of us with a foot in two different generations, I found this article refreshing.

I don't think Justice Kennedy is going to go along with it this time . "One ­­of the problems is when you think about these cases you think about words or cases, and—and the word that keeps coming back to me in this case is—is millennia, plus time. First of all, there has not been really time, so the respondents say, for the federal system to engage in this debate …  But still, 10 years is—I don’t even know how to count the decimals when we talk about millennia. This definition has been with us for millennia. And it—it’s very difficult for the Court to say, oh, well, we—we know better."

Disturbing. Very Disturbing. And they wonder why people don't trust the justice system anymore.

"What’s more, I think protest can actually backfire. The simple storyline playing in the theater of the public mind is that gay people are victims of oppression. That’s a story that logically requires an oppressor. Since opponents of gay marriage have mostly learned to speak cautiously and humbly, the unending need for bad guys requires hatred to be picked out of even the flimsiest materials." - From here.

it's called TAX FRAUD . (Please note: this is from Reuters, not some right wing news source.)

Good article here on how to save tomato seeds for replanting the next spring.

Good stuff here on the federal budget (or lack thereof).

I grow rather skeptical of debating abortion and pro-life issues sometimes because rarely do I ever encounter an argument on either side of the debate that is new or novel or has not been said in some way a hundred times before. I ran across this article today which I find all sorts of interesting . I find the logic at the end to be muddled to the point of going off the rails, but the first half is truly excellent. I have never considered the angle that the irony of the Roe v Wade decision was, in fact, adjudicated by an all male Supreme Court. I don't know why that never occurred to me, as it seems glaringly honest, but an interesting pro-feminist slant against the ruling was refreshing. I did know that only 7 justices actually heard the case, and it was taken only as a point of procedure having to do with whether the Supreme Court even had jurisdiction to hear the case, which is why there was no lower trial or appellate court proceedings or findings of fact at all: the whole t...

Al Kresta on his radio show today was interviewing a very interesting guest who has written a book about the  murder of her sister  and forgiveness. I was quite taken with the interview. I have not read the book, but I intend to.